Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Property from a German Private Collection
Lot Closed
May 7, 01:06 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from a German Private Collection
ADRIATIC SCHOOL, EARLY 14TH CENTURY
MADONNA AND CHILD
oil on panel, unframed
unframed: 45.1 x 31.2 cm.; 17¾ x 12¼ in.
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F. Bensa;
His sale, Genoa, Villa Carrara, 5 May 1965, lot 167 (as Florentine Master, 13th century).
This panel belongs to a group of paintings blending Byzantine and Italian features which Edward Garrison, in his Index of Italian Duecento panels, attributed to a so-called 'Adriatic' school, deemed to have been active in Dalmatia in the early 14th century.
The present composition corresponds to a special variant of the Madonna lactans that occurs in another eleven panels, displaying Mary holding Christ in her right arm and a flower in her left hand. The source of inspiration in this case is Lorenzo Veneziano’s images of the Virgin of Humility. The motif of the scarf-like textile on Mary’s shoulders stems from the cluster of works associated with the Master of the Sterbini Diptych, considered to be a Greek master working in Venice.
We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Michele Bacci for his help in the cataloguing of this painting.